Blockade
[blɒ'keɪd] or [blɑ'ked]
Definition
(noun.) a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy.
(noun.) prevents access or progress.
(verb.) impose a blockade on.
(verb.) obstruct access to.
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Definition
(v. t.) The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the blockade of the ports of an enemy.
(v. t.) An obstruction to passage.
(v. t. ) To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the introduction of supplies. See note under Blockade, n.
(n.) Hence, to shut in so as to prevent egress.
(n.) To obstruct entrance to or egress from.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Close (as ports, so as to prevent egress or ingress), block, shut up, stop up.
n. Closure (as of a port), shutting up, blocking up.
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Examples
- Should the men have to march, all baggage and artillery will be left to run the blockade. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Hence, England was constantly finding fault with the administration at Washington because we were not able to keep up an effective blockade. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Two other passengers ran the blockade successfully last night. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Famine and blockade were certain means of conquest; and on these we founded our hopes of victory. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Hence the exorbitant price of the necessaries of life during the blockade of a town, or in a famine. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The enemy had generally new arms which had run the blockade and were of uniform caliber. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Savannah was one of the points where blockade runners entered. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Key West and Pensacola were also in our possession, while all the important ports were blockaded by the navy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- On the 18th of June 1812 the Orders in Council were repealed, and the blockaded ports thrown open. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The Romans blockaded, cut up convoys, attacked stragglers, and ran away whenever Hannibal appeared. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- By all means, if we are not blockaded in the mean time; but if we are, you will have to stay here. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Thereafter Hannibal was blockaded into Calabria, the heel of Italy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Porter, commanding North Atlantic Blockading Squadron. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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